Published: Apr 05, 2016, 10:54 AM (IST)
Edited: Apr 05, 2016, 10:54 AM (IST)
On Sunday, when Darren Sammy was called for the presentation ceremony after West Indies won the ICC World T20 2016, the emotional skipper mentioned how Mark Nicholas’ ‘brainless’ comment did not go well with his side and spurred them to do well.
Sammy was lauded for his emotional post match speech and former England cricketer and reputed analyst Nicholas tendered an unconditional apology to Sammy and his side. Nicholas, in his ESPNCricinfo column, wrote, “The third is to offer an unreserved apology to Darren Sammy, a man I hold in the highest regard, to his team and to the coaches around them for the throwaway phrase I used in a recent column on these pages.” Watch Darren Sammy deliver an emotional victory speech after West Indies’ World T20 win
“I would have made the same apology whatever the results of the day, but I do so now in the knowledge that the people of the Caribbean will have celebrated long into the night and well into today. The spirit of the romantics will be with them and from thousands of miles away the rest of us can almost taste the rum, feel its punch and dream of the day when we return to the lapping shores of those incomparable islands.”
Nicholas went on to explain why he mentioned that and wrote, “it was a throwaway, not a considered judgement, and frankly, pretty damn lazy because it did not take account of the different personnel”. He told he regrets it and apologised for the same.
